If you look back through this thread, you'll see that Checker did a great deal for this site for many years, which billon has been kind enough to take over on. I know he hasn't been tracking his update work in the same way that Checker did, but the software updates are the life blood of the work here and are very important to address broad issues of reliability, both in software security and redundancy, communicating bug fixes and finding identifying a mirror when a program/site goes offline.

Since my availability is usually limited to weekends, the update process is not something I could take over from him without having some real delays. As it stands we usually catch updates that other sites miss (sometimes by multiple weeks), which is a big part of our search engine rankings.

Some very nice members said quite a few thanks recently but I just wanted to add one more. Thanks billon.

are you sure? you put a lot of work in here ... its good to have an offline life too

Actually efforts here helped with my career, greatly improved my understanding of collaboration, and gave me a broader understanding of software and tech. Also, when real life is going poorly, it's something of an oasis to have a project that people actually care about and use.